THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



El puerto de 

 Matanzas or 

 The haven of 

 slaughters. 



Las Sierras de 

 Guana. 



Cruz, del 

 Padre. 



La Baia de 



Conel. 

 La Baia de 

 Caos, or 

 Cayos. 



Or 



Cameloquea. 



smaller, and upon the said point is a shrub or bush 

 which sheweth like a saile : also there is a banke of 

 white sand along by the sea-side, which in the middest 

 thereof maketh a cliff full of trees that seemeth like 

 a sadle : and upon the Northeast side (for on this 

 maner the coast lyeth along from the Cape) going by 

 the chanell you shal see certaine hilles eighteene or 

 twentie leagues long lying Northeast and Southwest 

 being all saddle-like : and bringing the poynt Southwest 

 off you, you shall be in the middest of the chanell : 

 and from thence you have as farre to Matanzas as to 

 Cayo Romano. Likewise from thence on the side of 

 Havana you shall see certaine hilles which shewe to 

 be three, and ly Northeast and Southwest, and that 

 on the Southwest is highest : they are called Las Sierras 

 de Guana : and North and South from them lyeth a 

 flat, which is called Cayo de Nicola, which stretched 

 out two leagues into the Sea, and in the middle 

 of the sayde flatte there is a little Island of white 

 sand : and from thence you must sayle to Cruz del 

 Padre. 



Markes of Cruz del Padre. 



CRuz del Padre is a Cape all broken in pieces : 

 and from thence you must stir away Northeast, 

 because of the Bay that is there, called the Bay of 

 Conell, and this Bay stretcheth to the Bay of Caos, 

 which is within 20 leagues of the sayd poynt : and 

 then stir away West Northwest to goe with the Port 

 of Matanzas, and with the hilles of Camoniaca. 



Markes of the hilles of Camoniaca. 



THe hilles of Camoniaca ly Northwest and South- 

 east, and the Southeast side is lowe land and 

 even : also upon the Northeast side it is even land, 

 and runneth towards the Bay of Matanzas, and in the 

 middle of these hilles there is one high hill, and upon 

 the Northeast side there appeareth a round heape : and 



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